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Vladimir Nabokov

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Ten-year-old Aleksandr Ivaonich Luzhin, having proven too difficult for his governess, begins school. He is miserable and anti-social. The boy's father, convinced that Aleksandr will be the sort of gifted child that he writes about in his novels, is discouraged to hear academic reports indicating that his son is listless and apathetic. As the son of a famous author, Aleksandr is tormented by his peers. His misery persists until a chance...

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Vladimir Nabokov Biographies (6)

Vladimir Nabokov

1,079 words, approx. 4 pages

The Russian-born American poet, fiction writer, critic, and butterfly expert Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of his time, was noted for his sensuous and lyrica... Read more

Vladimir Nabokov

5,749 words, approx. 20 pages

Vladimir Nabokov, a Russian émigré who began writing in English in middle age, is considered one of the most brilliant and inventive writers of the twentieth century. A trilingua... Read more

Vladimir Nabokov

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Biography EssayVladimir Nabokov, one of the most important world novelists of the twentieth century, was almost unique in changing languages in mid career, from Russian to English. Not identified with... Read more

Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov

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It is a paradox that Vladimir Nabokov's life and career dramatically involved him in the most powerful socio-historical currents of the twentieth century: Marxist revolution, exile, politics, the sexu... Read more

Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov

7,291 words, approx. 25 pages

Vladimir Nabokov is one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century--and a thoroughly international one whose work is as carefully read in France, Germany, Japan, and Finland as in his ho... Read more

Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov

10,462 words, approx. 35 pages

Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov wrote novels, short stories, poems, translations, and literary criticism. His novels firmly established him as one of the best stylists of the twentieth centur... Read more

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